124 Groupe Originale Cerron - Super Naturellement 1cL.m4a

From Trevor and the boys who invented heavy bassline sequencing. There were some editing mistakes in the remix I used, so I reworked the entire structure. Hope you like the Fischerspooner voice FX.

Frankie say.. WAR! (billy idle's edit)

Original version goes like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA1pBgWvlug

Stay With Me, Latest Arrival (billy idle's edit)

For you, from a long Ago. From the days, when you had to leave home to call her so your mother doesn't find out. Italo disco funk reorganized the way I like it. The original has the chorus over and over and over again ad nauseam. Once or twice are enough, let the music do the rest!

Agostino can't phone from home (billy idle's edit)

It's a recombination of two obscure remixes plus custom drum programming. No material by other artists was used.

Brigitte Bar D'Eau (billy idle's trippy remix)

Thanks to http://soundcloud.com/tokyomatt/fais-attention-tokyo-editsu for the (almost) original.

Fais Attention (Billy Idle's Tokyo Re-Editsu)

I edited this track for my "Billy Idle Reworks The 80s - Vol. 2 - Originals In" radio show (get it from http://www.billyidle.de) but then I noticed it I can make it clubbier by re-organizing the parts (verse/chorus structure is not the thing we care to keep from the 70s/80s) and I also re-did the mix-in using the beats of the song itself. Much better than borrowing a kick drum from elsewhere. Oh, and the track is remastered as usual.


Kano - I'm Ready (Billy Idle's Edit)

Extended edit of the italo hymn of all times. I'm impressed how far a couple of good loops can take you. Yes I slowed it down. 128.5 bpm was a way to attract attention in the age of disco when everything was below 123. Today everything is 130, so 128.5 isn't very exciting. 123 gives the track more depth, more intergalactic space. Oh, what was it about? Radiation on the beach? Ok, back to nuclear sunbathing.

Righeira - Vamos a la Playa (Billy Idle's Nuclear Ultimatum Edit)

Vicious Pink Phenomena - Je t'aime (Billy Idle's Edit)

#5 in the series of tributes to soundcloud's best waveform fiddlers.. here is a modified version of Sacha Distel - Le Bateau Blanc (Cosmo Vitelli Edit) by Cosmo Vitelli – I gave it a more techno-friendly beginning.. other than that it's mostly Cosmo Vitelli's work. Why I upload this in flac? Because it is the best format for professionals on the Internet: Half as big as a WAV or AIFF of the same quality and much better than an MP3 that loses sound details each time you convert to it, even when using a bitrate of 320. Get yourself a free and open source flac decoder from http://flac.sourceforge.net/                 –––––––––– "Hey man, you did well, good one" – Cosmo Vitelli.



Sacha Distel - Le Bateau Blanc (Billy Idle's Cosmo Re-Edit)

This is minimal. The original version is excellent.. why do people remix this track to death? All it needed was a couple of bars at the beginning for mixing. Don't remember if I did much beyond that.

Maurice - This is Acid (Billy Idle's minimal edit)

Updated version... put some extra parts in..

Greg's in Jeopardy! (billy idle's rub-a-dub dub dub edit)

Italo disco classic with wrong vocals. Pure silliness, but properly remastered and kept in high quality as always. Have fun.


Kano vs Kittin - Rippin Another Life (Billy Idle's 2nd Mash-Up, Radio Edit)

Billy Idle is a resident DJ and promoter of @discobizarre, the weekly disco dancefloor at Berlin's KitKatClub. Our current focus is on 70's disco and 80's HiNRG… in the past decade Billy had specialized on 80's edits and ran a radio show on TWENFM. Billy still produces nearly one edit a day, but they are not available from soundcloud. If you're interested, get in touch using the website's contact form. Billy is miserably bad at checking mail on soundcloud. Catch him on Telegram instead. Also if you want your tracks to be played at Disco Bizarre. Disco Bizarre has also started its own label and was just about to publish Billy's first vinyl EP when the Corona virus came! After a bit we published it anyway.

Summer 2020 and 2021 saw Billy performing in parks, beer gardens and live streams (check out the youtube link) rather than in clubs. Subscribe to his newsletter, or invite him over. Tempelhof airport saw a lot of spontaneous bluetooth disco workouts.

Billy started routinely producing 80s' edits around 2010… the tracks typically maintain the sounds of the originals but adopt a more modern dramaturgy, suitable for beatmatched mixing (which until then was uncommon with music from the 80s). More instrumental parts, more time for the audience to tune into the song before the singing starts, if it starts at all. If you like Billy's edits, search soundcloud for 'Billy Idle' because various folks have been re-uploading them occasionally. Or follow the links on his website.

Why Billy uploads using FLAC? Because it is the best format for professionals on the Internet: Half as big as a WAV or AIFF of the same quality and much better than an MP3 that loses sound details each time you convert to it, even when using a bitrate of 320. Get yourself a free and open source FLAC decoder from http://flac.sourceforge.net

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